Recently, I came across a tweet from something called The GOP Alliance:
Every presidential assassin has been a liberal, communist, anarchist, someone on the Left.
That word “every” is one of those red-flag words that set off my bullshit detector. Given my interest in history as well as my interest in debunking ridiculous claims made by ideologues, [...]
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Nice try, GOP Alliance Twitter feed
A piece of Springfield’s past?
I was recently tooling around on the profoundly excellent Built St. Louis (if you like historical architecture, you’ll love this) Web site and came across BSL’s Industrial City section.
This section cataloged the perverse beauty of the St. Louis area’s once-great but decaying industrial base. Among the rusting hulks is the long-abandoned meatpacking complex in East [...]